Author: Mohit Reddy

New Delhi [India], January 26: Everyone keeps pretending this is complicated. It isn’t. The number has been stable for decades, and the arguments around it are mostly coping strategies dressed up as productivity theory. Adult humans need roughly eight hours of sleep. Not “six to seven.” Not “whatever works for you.” Eight. Nightly. Repeatedly. Forever. The variability people cite exists at the margins, and almost no one lives there. You can survive on less. You can function. You can even perform. That’s the trap. Sleep deprivation is generous that way. It gives you just enough rope to believe you’re the…

Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], January 26: India’s youngest entrepreneurs aren’t “future leaders.” They’re already running the table. Under 30. No inheritance. No patience. Something shifted. Quietly at first. Then all at once. Young Indian entrepreneurs under 30 in 2026 are not playing startup fantasy leagues. They’re shipping. Scaling. Filing IPO papers. And they’re doing it in sectors that used to scare older money. Deep-tech. Space. Healthcare. Infrastructure disguised as apps. This isn’t hustle culture. It’s execution culture. Look at Zepto. Kaivalya Vohra is 22. Aadit Palicha is 23. The story has been repeated so often it risks sounding cute. It isn’t.…

London [United Kingdom], January 26: Robbie Williams now holds the record. Sixteen UK number-one albums. The Beatles are at fifteen. That’s it. That’s the fact. Everything else is people negotiating their feelings about it. Different eras. Different rules. Different consumption habits. All true. Also, besides the point. Charts are not philosophy seminars. They’re ledgers. Numbers go up. Records fall over. Nobody asks whether the fall was tasteful. What makes people itchy isn’t that Robbie Williams beat The Beatles. It’s how he did it. Slowly. Publicly. Without ever becoming sacred. He didn’t vanish into legend. He didn’t die young. He didn’t…

Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], January 26: The evening saw the presence of Deepika Singh, Jayati Bhatia, Ankur Panchal, Kishori Shahane, Bobby Vij, Smita Bansal, Yesha Rughani, Pracheen Chauhan, Dishank Arora, Keerti Kelkar, Ishaan Dhawan, Priyanshi Yadav, Rajesh Balwani, Vivaan Bedi, Eshaan Sood, Shailesh Lodha, Manini De, Nivedita Basu, Rajev Paul, Sreejita De, Amar Upadhyay, Anushree Mehta , Abeer Sen Gupta, Haadi Ali Abrar, Rajan Shahi, Ishika Shahi Dr Sameera Gupta, Harry Anand & Many More. Aryan Mehta, grandson of legendary filmmaker Pranlal Mehta and son of producer Jay Mehta- made his much-anticipated debut with Rangrezz, an ambitious Indian adaptation of Shakespeare’s…

New Delhi [India], January 26: Tea is still a booming business in India because it never needed permission to exist. That’s the part most entrepreneurs miss. Tea doesn’t care about branding decks, pitch days, or lifestyle adjectives. It’s there at 6 a.m. in chipped cups, at railway platforms smelling like burnt milk, in offices where nothing else works but deadlines and caffeine. It’s infrastructure. People confuse that with opportunity and then wonder why they get chewed up. India didn’t “discover” tea as a market. It inherited it, absorbed it, ritualised it. Tea isn’t consumed here; it’s leaned on. Emotionally. Economically.…

New Delhi [India], January 26: Republic Day 2026 didn’t shout. It didn’t need to. A few words, an old verse, and a familiar reminder did the job. Republic Day has a habit of being misunderstood. Too often, it’s reduced to parades, protocol, and a day off work. January 26, 2026, gently corrected that illusion. Prime Minister Narendra Modi framed Republic Day not as memory, but momentum. A living marker of India’s freedom, its Constitution, and the democratic values holding this improbable nation together. No grand announcements. No chest-thumping. Just intent. The centrepiece of the Prime Minister’s Republic Day 2026 message…

Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], January 24: Natalie Portman’s Arco didn’t arrive waving a superhero cape or humming a nostalgic Disney tune. It slipped into the conversation quietly, carrying something far more disruptive: ideas. And not the pastel, easily digestible kind. The kind that sit at the dinner table, linger after the credits roll, and—according to Portman herself—spark awkwardly profound conversations with children about climate collapse, responsibility, and the future we keep postponing. That Arco has now found itself in the Oscar conversation for Best Animated Feature feels less like a victory lap and more like a cultural eyebrow raise. Animated films…

London [United Kingdom], January 24:  Emily Dickinson still feels modern because she never tried to be legible. That’s the part people keep circling without saying out loud. She didn’t smooth the edges. She didn’t explain herself. She didn’t care if you “got it,” and she definitely didn’t care if you liked her. “Tell all the truth but tell it slant—” wasn’t a clever line. It was an operating principle. That alone puts her closer to the present than most writers embalmed by syllabi. She wrote like someone who understood the mind is not a neat place. Thoughts interrupt each other.…

New Delhi [India], January 24: Jaun Elia did not arrive in India quietly. He arrived amplified. Through a microphone that was not his. For most Indian readers under thirty-five, Jaun Elia did not come from libraries, serious Urdu study, or the long lineage of Progressive Writers. He came through Kumar Vishwas. That is not an insult. That is a logistical fact. Cultural transmission rarely cares about purity. Vishwas didn’t reinterpret Jaun. He recited him. He named him. He repeated him on stages that reached places where Urdu poetry had not travelled in decades. Small towns. College auditoriums. Televised mushairas. You…

For years, homes were treated like showroom checklists. Neutral sofa? Check. Minimal lighting? Check. A marble countertop nobody actually uses? Naturally. Somewhere along the way, living spaces became less about living and more about impressing people who don’t pay the EMIs. That era is quietly—and slightly smugly—ending. As 2026 settles in, interior design is undergoing a philosophical pivot. Homes are no longer designed to look expensive; they’re designed to feel intentional. Personalised layouts, tactile materials, local craftsmanship, and story-driven décor are replacing cookie-cutter “luxury.” The modern home is becoming an experience, not a catalogue spread—and yes, it has opinions. This…